Haunted Crown Point, Indiana by Judith Tometczak

Author:Judith Tometczak
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2017-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Southeast Grove Cemetery warns uninvited visitors of consequences for trespassing. Author’s collection.

The eternal residents of Southeast Grove Cemetery, also known as Gypsy’s Graveyard, are destined to keep the secret of the legend of the gypsies forever. However, if the night is graced by a glowing moon and mysteries are beckoning to be solved, accept the invitation and pay your respects to the gypsies of Southeast Grove.

CHAPTER 6

HAUNTED HIGH

Oh, the glory days of high school, bringing back memories that are both nostalgic and bittersweet! Times spent with friends, classes with favorite teachers, the gratification of completing four years of studies and looking forward to a future full of possibilities are a large part of a Crown Point High School graduate’s scholastic experience. Add to that list a few paranormal experiences, and you have a better account of what it was like to attend Crown Point High School.

In the mid-1800s, schools in Crown Point consisted mostly of privately funded education, established in local homes and small structures, serving approximately fifty students. Unfortunately, all these early attempts at local education, although well intended, ended in financial failure. In 1880, the school board of trustees was successful in erecting a small structure, publicly funded, to serve as the first high school in Crown Point. Called the North Ward Building, it was built on Sherman Street and served the community well until it became inadequate to accommodate the growing number of students.

Crown Point’s second high school, the South Ward High School, was built in 1911. It was attended by more than six hundred students from grades seven through twelve until it also began to suffer from overcrowding. The community was in dire need of a larger building to educate its high school students.

At a special meeting of the city council in 1938, called in session by Mayor W. Vincent Youkey and attended by members of the city school board and other school officials, the mayor and councilmen gave their unanimous approval to build a new high school on an eighteen-acre plot of land on West Joliet Street. It was to be a project built with the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a government work program that was created in 1935 under U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. This program provided needed work for the millions of victims of the Great Depression, utilizing their skills and stimulating the economy. During its eight-year existence, the program employed 8.5 million people, at a cost to the federal government of approximately $11 billion. Little did the workers know that by making this location their construction site, they would be embarking on a project with dreadful circumstances.

The warm November sun made its welcome appearance on an unseasonably beautiful day in Crown Point. Although winter weather was just around the corner, there was no indication of that, as the WPA workers were scheduled to begin excavation at 104 West Joliet, the location of the new high school. That morning, the construction crew’s equipment delved into the fertile soil. It was not long before one of the laborers made an unexpected discovery.

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